Live #OccupyWallStreet: Sunday Updates

CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reported on “The Early Show on Saturday Morning,” demonstrations were held in more than a dozen cities, from Los Angeles to Richmond, Va., to downtown Minneapolis, Minn.

The Nova Scotian reports: These people do not believe that the business of America should be business.

“To judge by the diversity of their slogans, placards and websites, you pay your money (metaphorically) and you takes your choice. But there is no mistaking the gist.”

“The one thing that runs through all of them is that a feeling that there is just a fundamental unfairness. From their point of view, the very people who almost wrecked the U.S. economy on Wall Street continue to get wealthy while working people are struggling to pay their bills. I mean, it comes down to that.”

Saturday: 10/8/11
Day 22

ABC: An expedition of protesters from the Occupy Wall Street movement is scheduled to hold a “general assembly” at 3 p.m, in Washington Square Park . Which they describe as an opportunity to recruit new supporters and share ideas.

“We, the Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors, compelled by our personal convictions and our Company’s mission and values, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have joined in solidarity. The issues raised are of fundamental importance to all of us.”

The company specified:

The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral.

We are in an unemployment crisis. Almost 14 million people are unemployed. Nearly 20% of African American men are unemployed. Over 25% of our nation’s youth are unemployed.

Many workers who have jobs have to work 2 or 3 of them just to scrape by.

Higher education is almost impossible to obtain without going deeply in debt.

Corporations are permitted to spend unlimited resources to influence elections while stockpiling a trillion dollars rather than hiring people.

CBS Video: At the Value Voters Summit on Friday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said he is “increasingly concerned” by “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations which began in New York and spread to other major cities.

“If you look at the results, you’ll see a sort of historically familiar pattern: Democrats sympathizing with the protestors, Republicans railing against them and Michael Bloomberg worrying about his city’s tax base.”

The NYCLU Tweeted that they are sending a team of legal observers today.

From Politico - Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren came out swinging against the financial industry in her first U.S. Senate primary debate, arguing that “the people on Wall Street broke this country.”

I’m finding it hard to find actual news. There seems to be a blackout of some kind. There are over 7000 said to be marching nationally, not much coverage. Chicago itself has over 3000 protesters. Around 10% of the NY citizens marching have been arrested, according to sources.

September 22: Demonstrators interrupt a Sotheby’s Auction, “in a show of solidarity with the art handler’s union that had been locked out.” This is the first instance of labor unions and the movement locking step.

September 24: 80 protestors are arrested during a peaceful march; a video of a policeofficer pepper-spraying a nonthreatening woman goes viral.